On Monday May 20th, at the Content Delivery Summit in NYC, I’ll be presenting my latest data on the size of the content delivery market for video, as well as expected growth forecasts for both revenue and traffic volumes. I’ll also be discussing market sizing numbers for managed/licensed CDN as well as transparent caching. Attendees will also learn the current pricing points for video delivery services and hear about the market drivers and trends that will determine what customers pay in the future. There will also be an extensive Q&A session, so this is your chance to ask questions pertaining to current or future CDN pricing and market drivers.

Now in its fifth year, the Content Delivery Summit is a one-day conference designed to bring together telecom carriers, service providers, content owners, and industry vendors for a detailed look at CDN platforms for the delivery of video and content acceleration. Readers of my blog can register using my own personal discount code of DR13, which gets you a ticket to the show for only $395.

At the Streaming Media East show, taking place May 21-22 in NYC, we’ve got a session that will discuss captioning and transcription solutions implemented by consumer content services and enterprise corporations. Learn the costs and benefits derived from captioning, as well as best practices and tips for implementing accessibility technologies. The panel will also discuss strategies for meeting upcoming accessibility regulations and emerging standards that impact online video captioning. Confirmed speakers include:

• Moderator: Josh Miller, Co-Founder, 3Play Media
• Thomas Aquilone, Enterprise Technology Programs Manager, Lockheed Martin
• Ben Labrum, Senior Product Manager, Training On Demand, Oracle
• Wendy Collins, VP, Digital Strategy, Infobase Learning
• Piyush Patel, CEO, Digital Tutors

It’s not too late to get a pass to the show and readers of my blog can register using my own personal discount code of DR13, which gets you a two-day ticket to the show for only $695 and gives you access to 40 sessions and how-to presentations and 100+ speakers. You can also register for an exhibits only pass and get access to the show floor, both keynotes from CBS and ESPN and all the networking events, at no charge. #smeast

To optimize delivery of content to their customers, Comcast designed and deployed a large CDN based on open source tools and common off-the-shelf hardware. And on Monday May 20th, at the Content Delivery Summit in NYC, Jan van Doorn, Distinguished Engineer at Comcast, will present the challenges Comcast faced, the options they considered and discuss the good and bad of using open source technologies. Hear about Comcast’s real life experiences operating their CDN and how they handle support issues when using open source platforms.

Now in its fifth year, the Content Delivery Summit is a one-day conference designed to bring together telecom carriers, service providers, content owners, and industry vendors for a detailed look at CDN platforms for the delivery of video and content acceleration. Readers of my blog can register using my own personal discount code of DR13, which gets you a ticket to the show for only $395.

Speakers and presenters include: Netflix, eBay, LinkedIn, Redbox, Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom, TeliaSonera, Comcast, Charter Communications, Telstra, Pacnet, Telin as well as many of today’s leading solution providers.

With the advent of connected devices, 2nd-screen remote control apps, smart TVs, and other devices for viewing video, how does a consumer find what to watch? At the Streaming Media East show, taking place May 21-22 in NYC, we’ve got a session entitled “Content Discovery in a Multi-Platform World“. From traditional TV grids to new views of what is most popular or most social, how will the television discovery experience change? Will the difference between TV shows or videos that are live, VOD, DVR, and from OTT continue to be blurred in the eyes of the viewer? Come hear who will win and who will lose in this unbundled non-linear world and what the new business models look like. Confirmed speakers include:

• Moderator: Richard Glosser, President, Hilltop Digital
• JR McCabe, SVP, Video, Time Inc.
• Tara Maitra, SVP, General Manager Content & Media Sales, TiVo
• Tom Wilde, CEO, RAMP
• Meghann Erlhoul, VP Analytics and Research, Trendrr

It’s not too late to get a pass to the show and readers of my blog can register using my own personal discount code of DR13, which gets you a two-day ticket to the show for only $695 and gives you access to 40 sessions and how-to presentations and 100+ speakers. You can also register for an exhibits only pass and get access to the show floor, both keynotes from CBS and ESPN and all the networking events, at no charge. #smeast

It seems all you hear these days is about public, private, and hybrid clouds. Are cloud services applicable for enterprise video as well? At the Streaming Media East show, taking place May 21-22 in NYC, we’ve got a session entitled “Using Cloud-Based Video Services For The Enterprise” which will discuss the deployment options for cloud-based services for enterprise video with a focus on two primary methods of moving services to the cloud—encoding in the cloud and media management in the cloud. The session will address many questions around cloud-based enterprise services, including bandwidth concerns, pricing, and security. If you are considering moving to the cloud, this is a must attend session. Confirmed speakers include:

• Moderator: Andy Howard, Founder & Managing Director, Howard & Associates
• David Boyll, Director, Digital Media Technology, Oracle
• Chance Mason, EVP, Internet Media Division, Haivision
• David Gibbons, VP, Product Marketing, Ustream
• Dr. Shay David, Co-Founder, Chief Revenue Officer, Kaltura

It’s not too late to get a pass to the show and readers of my blog can register using my own personal discount code of DR13, which gets you a two-day ticket to the show for only $695 and gives you access to 40 sessions and how-to presentations and 100+ speakers. You can also register for an exhibits only pass and get access to the show floor, both keynotes from CBS and ESPN and all the networking events, at no charge. #smeast

At the Streaming Media East show, taking place May 21-22 in NYC, Mike Whitmore, Head of Studio Technology at HuffPost Live will be present how HuffPost Live is integrating social media into its live broadcasting platform. Learn how to leverage social networks like Google+ in live streams and what tools are available to integrate community features into live webcasts. Attendees will also hear best practices for leveraging your online community as on-air talent.

It’s not too late to get a pass to the show and readers of my blog can register using my own personal discount code of DR13, which gets you a two-day ticket to the show for only $695 and gives you access to 40 sessions and how-to presentations and 100+ speakers. You can also register for an exhibits only pass and get access to the show floor, both keynotes from CBS and ESPN and all the networking events, at no charge. #smeast

Yesterday’s CDNs were geared towards reducing costs for large-scale delivery of small and large objects. Now that bandwidth pricing is no longer an obstacle to business models, the new frontier for CDNs is to improve performance, by every millisecond possible, and reach new markets as they develop.

On Monday May 20th, at the Content Delivery Summit in NYC, we’ve got a session with eBay, Akamai, ChinaCache and Radware discussing, “Using Advanced CDN Services To Improve E-Commerce Performance.”

This session will reveal the impacts that CDNs have on E-Commerce businesses and review specific case studies, by CDN vendors and clients, as they show how the new generation of CDN services improves E-Commerce revenues around the world. Confirmed speakers include:

• Moderator: Steve Lerner, Sr. Member of Technical Staff, Network Engineering, eBay
• Steven Ryder, Director of Operations, CDN, ChinaCache
• Josh Roza, Director of CDN, Radware
  M.J. Johnson, Director, Product Marketing, Akamai

Now in its fifth year, the Content Delivery Summit is a one-day conference designed to bring together telecom carriers, service providers, content owners, and industry vendors for a detailed look at CDN platforms for the delivery of video and content acceleration. Readers of my blog can register using my own personal discount code of DR13, which gets you a ticket to the show for only $395.